Justice Dept. Launches Covert Sanctions Against Gun Owners

Not expecting Congress the come down on the Second Amendment, destroying it, the federal Justice Department, with Attorney General Eric Holder as it head, is doing a good job of weaking it by whittling away the dealers by launching covert sanctions that affect the relationship with gun owners.

Specifically, the Justice Department agents are telling banks and saving and loans they should not carry the checking accounts of gun dealers.

Kit Daniels of Infowars.com has the story.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is currently attacking the Second Amendment by fiat while constantly denying its abuses despite clear evidence to the contrary.

“Federal law enforcers are targeting merchant categories like payday lenders, ammunition and tobacco sales, and telemarketers – but not merely by pursuing those merchants directly,” Jason Oxman, the CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association, wrote on the subject. “Rather, Operation Choke Point is flooding payments companies that provide processing service to those industries with subpoenas, civil investigative demands, and other burdensome and costly legal demands.”

“And it’s working – payments companies across the country are cutting off service to categories of merchants that – although providing a legal service – are creating the potential for significant financial and reputational harm as law enforcement publicizes its activities,” he added.

Last month, BitPay, a U.S.-based bitcoin processor, refused to do business with gun dealer Michael Cargill of Central Texas Gunworks due to its Terms of Service which excludes merchants involved in firearm sales, ponzi schemes, “get rich quick” programs, “money service businesses” (such as payday loans), gambling and others which are all listed in the FDIC document.

“Unfortunately, the strategy is legally dubious,” he wrote. “[The] Justice [Dept.] is pressuring banks to shut down accounts without pressing charges against a merchant or even establishing that the merchant broke the law.”

Last August, 31 members of Congress became aware of Operation Choke Point and sent a letter to the Justice Dept. asking for information on the program, stating that it “has come to our attention that the DOJ and the FDIC are leading a joint effort that according to a DOJ official is intended to ‘change the structures within the financial system … choking [online short-term lenders] off from the very air they need to survive,’” in reference to payday lenders listed as a “high-risk activity” alongside firearm sales in the FDIC document.

They also warned that the agencies were acting outside of their congressional mandate and without statutory authority.

It’s no surprise that Operation Choke Point came into existence during Eric Holder’s reign as Attorney General, who famously said in 1995 that he wanted to “brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”

Holder is also one of the most corrupt bureaucrats as well. When his unconstitutional abuses are exposed, it is common for Holder to deny that they are taking place, even if the evidence is in plain view.

But he was later held in contempt of Congress for refusing to release thousands of internal Justice Dept. documents in response to a subpoena. Even President Obama invoked executive privilege to prevent the documents from being released.